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27 comments

• Maury says:

  Dynasty+dim sum=epic opera review lulz. Which is to say awfully amusing.

  on October 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM
• ellerveira says:

  Hey maybe we could have someone do Turadot as a drama of Old (Aztec) Mexico, with a female priestess threatening to knife the hearts out of people. Wouldn’t that be nifty?

  on October 30, 2009 at 10:55 AM
• ellerveira says:

  Or better yet, because cheaper, do it as a mafioso being quizzed by an FBI interrogatress in a room with lie detectors, etc., etc.,…..bare rooms, steel furniture, you know, really cheap…

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
• Baritenor says:

  Cieca, you left out “Someone’s mother”

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM
• Harry says:

  Oh! Jezz I am wetting my excited pants trying to remember who this Saturday afternoon matinee’ film vamp is in the photograph, adorned with all that clunk dime store jewelery. Bored out of her wits, waiting for some hero to finally grab and thrill her at the final fade out. Is it Dottie Lamour,out of a sarong for a change ?

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM
• The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

  “Ann Murray and Meredith Arwady will sing the role of the Marquise de Berkenfield in La Fille du Régiment, replacing Felicity Palmer who has withdrawn from the run for personal reasons. Ann Murray will sing the performances on February 6, 10, and 13 matinee, and Meredith Arwady those on February 16, 19, and 22.”

  Fine news about Murray, a real ‘trouper’– but wasn’t Della Jones available for the other performances? Of course this role demands a British or Commonwealth singer to honour the bel canto legacy of Monica Sinclair.

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM
• La Cieca says:

  Harry:

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:40 AM
• Harry says:

  ellerviera(2#): An ‘Aztec’ Turandot…. ? The ideal cast that could have been…..Well I am first to think of casting Yma Sumac as Liu. What a sensational performance we would have had.

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:40 AM
• Harry says:

  La Cieca; Lovely Yvonne D’Carlo!..One of the first matinee’ I attended as a kid… was seeing her in Slave Girl with lots of foreign legionnaires. All I remember is some clown turning up a flame brazer in a tent of all things, trying to make her talk. (Perhaps they had fire proof tents!) I once talked to a guy that said he slept in ‘her bed’…..What he then explained and was meaning : he slept in the same hotel room …and the hotel bed, she had vacated the previous day.

  on October 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM
• Harry says:

  Gee Vicar(6#)…you have outdone yourself , this time….mentioning Della Jones -the wobbling squawker for all ages. Just how many recordings he has wrecked with her ‘contributions’. The opera Beatrice Cenci is just one example. Do you want more?

  on October 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM